EDH thoughts...

I started playing EDH quite a long time ago. We followed the now official rules. But when I started to play Magic online via Cockatrice I realized that many people either play multiplayer games or 1 vs. 1 using the French banlist and rules. In Slovakia the players either play EDH multiplayer or german highlander and we got into disputes quite often about the banlist and non-campatibility of the decks.

This year I joined a german highlander league and build a 4 color (5cc) let's say control. This 4cc is quite fast, versatile and can beat the crap out of almost everything (except mono red with resolved blood moon - and I'm talking about the deck not me as the pilot^^). For quite some time I played only highlander and than suddenly I was asked to play EDH. I was like WTH? My deck was somewhere far away in a box. Anyway I played 1-on-1 games with my highlander adding Horde of Notions as a general. It seemed as a good choice. Good body, Vigilance, Trample, Haste and it occasionally plays Mulldrifter or Shriekmaw from the graveyard (and Lark and such). So far for 1-on-1 games it was ok. I only missed few cards one of the cards being Karn Liberated.

But then in a different store I joined a multiplayer game and this deck was incompatible. It was a really bad experience. So I decided that it is time to take Mimeoplasm out of the box and play with it.

I played with it even online and noted that I don't have it build using the French banlist. I played both multiplayer games and 1-on-1 games. In both cases the deck was doing relatively good. But I had to change my plan - I needed to be more of a combo otherwise I would soon lose. My deck was the one not having tempo but having responses to everything. But that gets frustrating (my deck is not entirely a control deck, see). Anyway I pulled off wins each time.

When I switched decks and played with my 5cc the games started to be more balanced and the lack of vampiric tutor, sol ring, strip mine and such also helped it a lot. I wasn't being called an idiot playing these cards or being kicked out of the room^^. I went through this in IRL and it wasn't nice.

After more games with the French banlist I found out that the decks are quite fast and can be pretty mean. I got killed by turn 5 in several cases. The games reminded me of german highlander but with one card that you can recursively play. My general is more like, play it once and win the game with it. That's what I had to do. Always tutored Buried Alive into Grave Titan, Skithiryx and some card that would be my second target if the first wouldn't win me the game. This was my only option if I wanted to win, my deck is too slow for 1-on-1 play in the French banlist meta.

You have some experience with these formats? What do you think about it?
I truly think that the French EDH is on a good way of being 'officialized' and I actually like it. But on the other hand it loses the charm with which EDH charmed me to begin with. But well it comes down to... a player plays a game to win it.

ReRave

Today (actually yesterday)I decided to take some videos of me playing ReRave. I just wanted to know how it looks like when I play. While trying to take a video of me playing ReRave I realized that this is much more difficult task than doing videos of me playing other music games like Beatmania, DDR or Guitar Hero.

At first I just sat on the sofa and tried to move the camera and ipad around to get a good view on it. But I was sitting in such an awkward position that playing became almost impossible^_^.

My second attemp was more successful. My setup follows. Just imagine myself sitting in front of the the books and playing.

It's not the best setup I could get. The camera was falling of the flashdrive, ipad was moving around (out of the scene) and the screen flipped upside down from time to time. After few tries of playing I managed to stabilize it and take a video^^. Here it goes!

Nicol Bolas defeated!

As of today I defeated Nicol Bolas Planeswalker in the DotP game. Now it's time for a more difficult mode. He played 2 Cruel Ultimatums and Grave Titan in one game and I still survived, hehe.

Duels of the Planeswalkers is out!

Well, I'm in Ravnica now. The game looks nice, had some problems managing my deck but I eventually found out how to do it. 23/23 Pridemate, 69 life and Felidar Sovereign nowhere to be found and 56 damage in one attack. That sounds like an achievement^_^. At least for a mono white aggro deck^^. I had to have bigger creatures against Garruk.

DDR Extreme cabinet model